Category: pregnancy

This is a Maternity Monday post by guest blogger and photographer, Jess Levey. Jess covers all thing baby almost every Monday on Beccarama. Maternity Mondays is back with exciting news of our baby girl’s birth! Baby S was born on January 23, 2013 in Brooklyn, NY. 23 has been my favorite number my entire life, […]

I had a C-Section. From the moment I found out I was having identical twin girls the possibility of a C-Section loomed large in any and all discussions about delivery day. I also had one of the most un-New Agey pregnancies you can imagine. I had sonograms every two weeks until 28 weeks to check […]

This is a Maternity Monday post by still-pregnant guest blogger and teaching artist, Jess Levey. Yup, the time has come, and gone, for the final looooong stretch. Although my husband and I are both very punctual people, I have always been pretty sure that baby would be late. My due date was January 12th – […]

This is a guest post by Jess Levey as part of Maternity Mondays. We are now at 38 weeks, and as Braxton Hicks contractions (or ‘practice labor surges’ as we say in hypnobirthing) appear as quickly as they dissipate, the reality has definitely set in, that yes, we will soon be experiencing a life changing […]

This is a Maternity Monday post by guest blogger and teaching artist Jess Levey. This series publishes almost every Monday on Beccarama. Last week I had the great pleasure of attending The Big City Moms’ Biggest Baby Shower Ever at The Metropolitan Pavillion in NYC. This was my first baby crazed event and I had […]

This is a Maternity Monday post by guest blogger and arts educator Jess Levey. This series appears almost every Monday on Beccarama.com Yesterday we received an email from my mother in law in Israel who relayed an emotional story about my sister-in-law’s race from the playground to the bomb shelters while she struggled to carry […]

This is a Maternity Monday post by guest blogger Jess Levey. This series appears almost every Monday on Beccarama. Well, it is official. At 27 weeks people now know I am pregnant – thanks in part to my Facebook declaration as well as my now very obvious belly bump, or as I like to call […]

This is a Maternity Monday post by guest blogger Jess Levey. This series appears almost every Monday on Beccarama. I have been taking a break from Maternity Mondays since, well, I have been very busy starting a new teaching job, shooting and editing weddings, and working in my art studio – did I mention, that […]

This is a Maternity Monday post by guest blogger Jess Levey. This series appears every Monday on Beccarama. Well, there is one thing I am sure that I will not do again while pregnant – drive 22 hours roundtrip in a car. Last week, my husband and I made the 11 hour journey to Detroit […]

This is a Maternity Monday post by guest blogger Jess Levey. This series appears every Monday on Beccarama. So, the other day my neighbor who has lived in my apartment building for 20 years or so, and who likes to bond with people by throwing out insults to them, said to me, upon finding out […]